I AM IN THE TAFO-PANKRONO RACE TO WIN-CPP CANDIDATE DECLARES.

The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Tafo-Pankrono constituency in the Kumasi Metropolis, Mr.Issah Abdul Salem has predicted that, he will unseat Dr.Anthony Akoto Osei,the incumbent New Patriotic Party(MP) in the 7^th December, 2016 general elections.

According to him, he is in the race to win hence he wouldn’t waste his time and resources for the filing fee, T-shirt, posters among others and called on the electorates to vote massively for him as well as the CPP flagbearer, Lawyer Ivor Greenstreet to form the next Government.

Mr.Salem who is also the Ashanti Regional Secretary for the CPP made the prediction at Garden City radio in Kumasi,a subsidiary of Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation (GBC) during it’s newspaper review segment hosted by Emmanuel Assel.

He was very confident that,CPP will form the next Government because the grounds were very fertile for them .He therefore urged Ghanaians to vote massively for CPP after trying both NDC and NPP under the 4^th Republic

On the President Mahama's decision to grant the Montie 3 pardon, the Ashanti CPP Regional Secretary who doubles as 2016 Tafo Pankrono Parliamentary candidate, he stated emphatically that, President Mahama has committed no sin.

According to him, from independence to date successive Presidents have granted various pardons to people some of whom were Hardened criminals

“I know someone in Kumasi who was sentenced to death and after spending 10 years in jail Former President John Agyekum Kufour granted him pardon. So there is nothing wrong if a President should grant somebody pardon even though, they don’t want President to release the Montie 3 but for the fact that Supreme Court jailed the Montie 3 has demonstrated to them and those who think and talk loosely now know that, they are not above the law”. Adding that the decision by President Mahama to pardon the guys should not be  politicized because it can happen to anyone.It would be recalled that, President John Dramani Mahama remitted the four months prison sentence handed to the Montie FM host, and two panelists who were convicted of contempt by the Supreme Court and jailed. This was after a petition signed by top government officials and NDC functionaries, was presented to the President asking him to pardon the three, who are affiliated to the ruling NDC. The three are: Alistair Nelson, Godwin Ako Gunn and Salifu Maase, alias Mugabe they had been sentenced to four months in jail and paid a fine of Ghc 10,000 each, but have now been granted their freedom three months early.

He was with the hope that, the 3 must have learned a lesson and reform not ever use their medium to threaten people or insult others in the name of politics.